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study of Japanese society

...social theory and reality. Critical of the rise of merchants and farmers at the expense of the samurai, he tried to find a way to revive the deteriorating conditions of warriors. In his work
Seidan, for example, Sorai insisted that the main reason for the financial distress of the warrior class in both the
bakufu and the domains was that warriors had moved to the cities, where...